Example sentences of "this [noun] [vb mod] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All calculations of this kind may of course be upset , but almost invariably because of a swing in the electorate 's judgment not of candidates but of their politics . |
| 2 | So incomes in other countries rise ( also by a multiplier effect ) and some of this rise may in turn be spent on United Kingdom exports . |
| 3 | The resulting figure will give the quantity of bullion minted , and this figure will in turn allow some attempt to quantify the cash element of state budgets and to approach questions of money supply ( and so , possibly , liquidity ) . |
| 4 | This gap must of course be filled in our score , otherwise it will sound very thin and unsatisfactory . |
| 5 | This generalization would of course be efficiently stated only by way of a certain interpreted equation . |
| 6 | And I , like Mr ask that this issue should in fact be addressed , we should be looking at their total responsibilities , and I I support the action of the budget review in saying that er , we should be looking at this with a view to it being a corporate responsibility . |
| 7 | Clearly , then , externalization of this process may in part result in an undoing and reversal of that internalization of dependency on the lost , providential mother . |
| 8 | I was beginning to realize that this diet could in fact be a breakthrough for all those who were still left with the typical British ‘ pear ’ shape , even after losing weight successfully . |
| 9 | This period will of course depend upon the nature of the works being carried out and while the landlord will expect quite a long overrun period , it should be possible for the landlord and the tenant to agree a suitable long stop date . |
| 10 | This relationship may in fact be the result of convention , the very type of convention deconstructive criticism wishes to demystify . |
| 11 | This awareness will in turn result in further new product ranges ; unleaded toughened glass enamels , unleaded inglaze and underglaze colours , dispersed pigments suitable for water based systems and environmentally friendly decorative precious metal preparations . |
| 12 | How a lot of this legislation will about choice . |
| 13 | This trend may in fact be more marked , since it is acknowledged that victims may be considerably reluctant to report , and police to record , offences of violence committed in the home . |
| 14 | ‘ This guarantee does not affect your statutory rights ’ : we 've all seen it written and , believe it or not , this statement must by law be on all guarantees , in order to explain and remind us that we also have rights against the supplier , as well as the issuer of the guarantee . |
| 15 | This meal may of course be of gargantuan proportions and much snacking of high-energy foods may precede its consumption . |
| 16 | This situation would in turn tend to promote surface cooling , as less thermal radiation would be emitted from the stratosphere to the ground . |
| 17 | This controversy could in principle have been resolved if the Electricity Boards had had effective knowledge of their own costs in meeting specific loads , but they conspicuously failed to develop and use the research necessary to establish this . |
| 18 | This book will of course deal with the familiar aspects of volcanoes and with the different kinds of eruptions that take place , but in addition to this , it will cover some of the quieter , less well-known aspects , and try to explain why volcanoes exist at all , why they occur where they do , and how they fit into the history of the Earth as a whole . |
| 19 | In other cases , such as the Dead Sea Rift , there is a significant transform component in the extensional movement and this feature can in fact be regarded as a large pull-apart basin ( see Section 3.5 ) . |
| 20 | However , if one tries to envelop the noun phrase and the adjective in a single question , then , on the one hand , the result will usually or always be grammatical , because the verbs occurring in this construction can of course stand as ordinary transitive verbs , but , on the other , the question form will naturally be taken as related to the ordinary transitive verb with a simple noun phrase object — with a corresponding alteration in the meaning expressed ; ( 23 ) is an attempt to put such a question : ( 23 ) his sister set the owl free what did his sister set ? to which suitable answers could include the mousetrap or the first four questions . |
| 21 | Coun Bolland said : ‘ It is always a great pleasure to welcome the HMS Jupiter to Middlesbrough , but this visit will of course be tinged with sadness , as it is the last . |
| 22 | An executive President would be head of state ; holders of this office would in future be elected directly for a maximum term of five years and limited to a maximum of two such terms . |